UK Festivals Unite in War Child fundraiser

15 May 2025 - Press release

46 of the UK’s best festivals put tickets up for grabs including Boomtown, Love Saves The Day, Isle of Wight, Reading & Leeds and Shambala

Donations link here.

Children don’t start wars — yet nearly 1 in 5 children around the world are affected by conflict. That’s why 46 festivals across the UK are uniting to fundraise for War Child by putting tickets for their 2025 events up for grabs.

Thanks to a partnership between War Child, the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF), Boomtown and Team Love (Love Saves The Day et al), music fans have a chance to win a pair of tickets to some of this summer's hottest festivals by donating just £10 to War Child in the Festivals Unite prize draw, with entries open at 11am today (May 15 2025).

Alongside Boomtown and Love Saves The Day, UK festivals backing the fundraiser by contributing tickets to this special prize include Isle of Wight Festival, Reading & Leeds, Parklife, Shambala, 2000trees, We Out Here and more (full list below). 

All funds raised will go directly toward providing life-saving aid, safe spaces, education, specialist psychological support, and long-term protection for vulnerable children around the world. With global aid cuts and increasing humanitarian crises, War Child’s work is more urgent than ever.

473 million children (more than the entire population of the USA and Canada combined) are impacted by war. Many are anxious and scared. They have lost their homes, their books, and toys. Separated from their friends and loved ones, the sound of explosions and gunfire is never far away for millions of these children.

Donations can be made via this link with every £10 donated earning one entry into the prize draw. There will be two draws: one on May 22 and another on June 2, with entries closing on June 1 2025 at 23:59PM BST.

War Child UK Music Manager, Feedy Frizzi, said: “We're incredibly grateful to Festivals Unite and all the teams that are donating tickets to some of the most highly anticipated festivals of the summer. I'm a strong believer that music fans truly care about making a positive impact, and this prize draw is the perfect opportunity for them to do just that while getting the chance to see some of their favourite artists live. War Child's teams around the world are working to provide life saving support and long term, specialist care to ensure the safety and recovery of some of the world's most vulnerable children, and the money raised here will be vital in allowing our teams to continue to do this.”

AIF CEO John Rostron said: “Festivals are places of love, joy and jubilation, something that everybody should be able to experience but that is so far away from the devastating reality faced by the millions of children that War Child seeks to protect on a daily basis. By bringing together the UK festival community for this campaign, we can not only raise funds for a worthy cause but also demonstrate the good that both festivals and festival-goers can do.”

Full list of Festivals Unite events
2000trees
All Points East

Anjuna Deep - Open Air London

Annie Mac Before Midnight

ArcTanGent

Body Movements

Boomtown

Boundary

Camp Bestival

Camp Wildfire

Dekmantel

Dimensions

Eden

End Of The Road Festival

Fly Open Air

Forwards

Gottwood

Green Gathering

Green Man

High Lights

Homestead

Houghton

Isle of Wight Festival

Jazz Cafe Festival

Junction 2
Kala

Leeds

Lido

Love International

Love Saves The Day

Love Supreme

Madruga

Maiden Voyage

Multi Multi

Outlook

Parklife
Queens Yard Summer Party

Radar

Reading

Red Rooster

Shambala

Shindig

Snowboxx

The Long Road

Waterworks

We Out here